Dr Frances Fowle — Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts

Dr Frances Fowle is Reader in History of Art, International Director of Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, and Senior Curator of French Art at the National Galleries of Scotland. She is also senior Trustee of the Burrell Collection, Glasgow, co-founder and board member of the International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA), and is on the steering committee of the European Revivals Research Network (Ateneum, Helsinki). Frances gained her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1994. She has held posts at the universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow and was in the curatorial department at Tate Britain before joining the National Galleries of Scotland in 2001 and the University of Edinburgh in 2005.

Fowle is an expert on impressionism, collecting and the art market and her books include ‘Monet and French Landscape: Vétheuil and Normandy’ (2006) and ‘Van Gogh’s Twin: the Scottish Art Dealer Alexander Reid (1854–1928)’ (2010). She has curated and contributed to numerous international exhibitions, notable exhibitions include ‘Degas and America: the early collectors’ (2001) and ‘Inspiring Impressionism: Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh’ (2016–17). Her most recent publication is two edited volumes on ‘Nordic Artists’ Colonies 1870–1914’ (Art in Translation, Taylor & Francis 2017).

Fowle is the chair of the ‘Women Collectors in Britain and America c.1880–1939’ session at our upcoming ‘Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts’ conference. She will be joined by fellow speakers Dr Margaret Laster, Genevieve Westerby and MaryKate Cleary. This session examines the role of women as collectors and agents, specifically of Impressionism and modern art, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

To register for the conference taking place 26–27 June in New York visit: http://www.christies.com/exhibitions/christies-education-conference-celebrating-female-agency-arts